Cooking Articles

Memorial Day is the perfect occasion to cook a classic American meal: hamburgers and hot dogs, or as my cousin Michael would say, “hams and hots.” There are literally hundreds of ways to season hamburger...

Edible Landscaping Part One: You Can Have Your Landscaping and Eat It Too

Ornamental landscaping helps define an outdoor space and enhance it for human use. When you think of a residential landscape you usually think of a green lawn, some trees, a couple of shrubs, and a border...

Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial kickoff to summer: swimming pools, barbecues, and lazy days of taking in blockbusters at the local theater. But for all the new movies just out, there is something...

Yesterday I was trolling a popular foodie website that listed the Top Ten Things to Do in Philadelphia. It was sad really. Number 1 was "have a cheesesteak" and Number 10 was "eat pizza on South Street."...

My love of Mexican food never tires. After spending a week in Mexico, what do you think I had for lunch the first day back at work? A burrito! Even though most of what you might call Mexican food is not...

One of my favorite things to do this time of year is to head down to the strawberry patch and come out with a bucketful of fresh and juicy ripe berries. It’s an activity that all kids, young and old,...

Cooking in a Flash: How to Reheat Food without Overcooking It

It’s Saturday night and friends are coming for dinner. You have just one oven. Four dishes need to be cooked in that oven and served hot at the same time. There is no way you can roast a chicken,...

Patio Produce: Lettuce

You don't need acres of land to grow your own fresh, healthy and delicious produce. In fact, you don't need any land at all. If you have a sunny spot on a patio, you're in business. And while you aren't...

Big Hearts Come In Small Packages

Whoever the first person was that decided an artichoke was edible must have been both masochistic and extremely dedicated. When that first person made it past the layers of spiny leaves, no doubt pricking...

A Most Unusual Birthday

Birthdays and birthday cake. They pretty much go hand-in-hand here in America, right? Well, sure—if the birthday person likes cake, that is. Who in the world doesn’t like cake, huh? Well,...

Roasted & Toasted: Good Campfire Grub

It is thought that sticks were the first cooking tools—and that roasted woolly mammoth might have once been a delicacy of our ancestors who lived in caves. Whether your cooking stick is pre-made and...

To Bean or Not to Bean: The Great Texas Chili Debate

At a workplace potluck recently I ate, for the first time, Texas chili. I have never really cared for the stuff because, where I'm from (Georgia), the chili has kidney beans in it, and I am not a fan...

Larb From Another Land

It is a rare and happy occasion to discover a restaurant serving food that evokes a specific fond memory. The meatballs that taste just like your Italian grandmother’s. The pie that your mother made...

Chocolate Discovery

My seven-year-old daughter recently chose a topic to create an educational display for an end-of-year annual learning fair. Her choice? Chocolate. Chocolate lovers that we both are, this was the...

Wok Don't Run

Writing about the necessity of tools in the kitchen a few weeks ago got me thinking further: call this Kitchen Equipment Article Part II. Except this is about one item in particular. I was thinking that...

Squash, That Impulse

I’m always picking up random items at the grocery store. I’m a big believer in variety in my diet, and whenever I feel like I’m picking up the same items grocery trip after grocery trip, I’ll pick...